i having been programming for 10+ years now, so I always try to adhere to good programming practices (variable naming, spacing, etc). Yet, almost every snippet of code for JS or PHP that you can pull up goes against those practices.

even when writing JS or PHP, where var type isn't nearly as strict as, say, Java, I'll write:
or

but even examples on sun.com or php.net look like
or

I understand they're both scripting languages, but I don't feel that is any reason to deviate from good programming practices.

Anyone else feel this way still, or has the whole world gone insane and I'm just wasting precious keystrokes?